"He said each student would get a free computer "instead of books, because books will be found and can be read on computers."
I hope they are not intending to do a way with books altogether...
Technology is great but hardly a replacement for books. Books are inexpensive in comparison, portable, random access memory (you can flip to any page), durable (harder to break then computers, sometimes there are printing errors but a book is never gonna give you a kernel panic or blue screen.
The $100.00 laptop sounds like a great tool for the students but hardly a replacement for books. If they try that this project will flop.
I always wondered about that. If I use ftp to share copy-written materials would proftp be liable? Or how about apache if my apache webserver/site provided access to copy protected materials.
I mean does Verizon get sued when people use their network for making drug deals? should they be?
Yep! At least until Microsoft X is released. Maybe they will cal it Windows MX, the new BSD based OS with a custom windows window manager. Yes I beleive Microsft management will wise up and basically use there assets to revamp Apples product. As a matter of fact doesn't Microsoft own a percentage of Apple? I found this on the Ask Metafilter:
From Apple's 2003 SEC filing:
"In August 1997, the Company and Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) entered into patent cross license and technology agreements. In addition, Microsoft purchased 150,000 shares of Apple Series A nonvoting convertible preferred stock ("preferred stock") for $150 million. These shares were convertible by Microsoft after August 5, 2000, into shares of the Company's common stock at a conversion price of $8.25 per share. During 2000, 74,250 shares of preferred stock were converted to 9 million shares of the Company's common stock. During 2001, the remaining 75,750 preferred shares were converted into 9.2 million shares of the Company's common stock." http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/30833
[The General stands before a large electronic wall display talking to the rebel fighers]
General: "The battle station is heavily shielded and carries a firepower greater than half the fleet. It's defenses are designed around a direct large-scale assault. A small one-man coder should be able to penetrate the outer defense."
Code Leader: [stands up to ask question] "Pardon me for asking, sir, but what good are programmers going to be against that?"
General: "Well, the Empire doesn't consider small one-man coders to be any threat, or they'd have a tighter defense. An analysis of the plans provided by Steven Hilton has demonstrated a weakness in the station."
General: [Tux makes penguin sounds. The computer display starts as the General keeps talking] "The approach will not be easy. You are required to maneuver your packets straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two kilobytes wide. It's a UDP port, right below the TCP port. The shaft leads directly to the RPC. A precise hit will start a chain reaction which should destroy the station."
General: [a murmer of disbelief runs through the room] "Only a precise hit will set up a chain reaction. The shaft is Firewalled, so you'll have to be l33t."
-- Written By:Russell Nelson On June 2, 2006 03:15 AM Wow. That's an interesting decision. So if I post my land against hunters, and hunters trespass anyway, I can't exclude hunters because my land was public because hunters trespassed while claiming that they weren't hunters? They were never authorized. Even if I was unable to identify them on casual examination, THEY knew they were hunters, and THEY knew their use of my land was unauthorized. The law is fully capable of taking one's internal knowledge into account -- that's why manslaughter and murder are different crimes.
Great... Thank you very much... More junk in space... This is what the best and brightest could come up with? How about getting us back to earths natural satellite, the moon.
"I'm all for general research, I just wish it had a general direction." -DML
That sounds more like the system rather than the Laywer isn't it. That is to say, the involvment of Law Firm is the result of two parties not being able to resolve a conflict on their own.
(Rather than deal with a complaint 1 on 1 to resolve an issue I'll ignore it and see if you'll spend resources on a lawyer)
Plus Law Firms seem to be invloved in mergers, bankruptcy, contracts and aspects of business designed to keep firms out of legal trouble.
If I could earn a percentage of the fees paid to lawyers over the past 20 years..."whew!"
Law firms look like a good place to invest money for the next 10-20 years. The entertainment industry seems to determined to grow that segment of the market.
I use a combination of tools to lock down my registry, find and destroy adware, monitor mail and new files as needed.
If AVG or any of the packages listed have a good real-time scanner great, more power to ya. I don't see real time scanning as the most important feature in desktop security.
It reads like this bill limits the ability of people to communicate with each other about security flaws because someone may abuse the knowledge? So who decides what knowledge is safe and unsafe? My elected official? As an American I can say my elected officials are the last people I want making decisions about what information is or is not unsafe.
I agree with most of it, especially the MMORPG trend. Recently "City of Heroes" has been my affliction... It's comic book style combat in real time! Thats where I'm betting consoles will hit the wall. Playing a MMORPG on a big screen TV is just a Novelty.
A few words about the "hard core gamers": Madden Football 2002 had a feature that allowed you to setup an online league. A windows based Madden Football League Server. You could connect over the net to run a draft, trade players and check injury reports. It was buggy and seemed to crash all the time but It was the best feature of a PC game I ever saw. I became a hard core Madden Football fan because of it. I could run a league of my own! With my friends, with strangers, with anyone! Some charged membership fees and played for a cash prizes. The hard core gamer had full control.
EA promptly removed the feature the following year saying it was to difficult to mantain and not enough gamers used the feature. Promptly built a buggy online server of their own and charged for access.
We few Hard Core Gamers were not enough to keep the best feature Madden Football ever created. Game companies are after the mass market. The mass market is all about novelty. Discount bins full of Madden 2006 are the result.
Back in the day, when Red Hat was just talkng about going public, I always wondered why Microsoft never did a port of MS office to the LINUX/UNIX Patform. They did it for MAC and figured they had enough R&D money to be present on every OS of the day. I even thought "MS Linux" was just around the corner. I figured Bill Gates would be everywhere to take advantage of innovation from wherever it would emerge.
Sigh.... Linux Users... Rebel Scum! --Fan of the Evil Empire
"Much of the role of open source in the development of the Internet is well known: The most widely used TCP/IP protocol implementation was developed as part of Berkeley networking; Bind runs the DNS, without which none of the web sites we depend on would be reachable; sendmail is the heart of the Internet email backbone; Apache is the dominant web server; Perl the dominant language for creating dynamic sites; etc." --Open Source Paradigm Shift by Tim O'Reilly June 2004
it is normal... everywhere... you think we don't notice what corporations and business do everyday. If you can find and edge an advantage to get what you want when you want it, You do it!
WE all need money... If I know peeps are willing to pay m 10 bucks for a quality batman begins DVD. that cost me 33 censt to burn... and the risk of being caught (Jail time) is minimal. Sounds like a solid investment to me.
Bootlegging is not a crime... It's just another investment opportunity. It's not what you do... It's what you can get away with.
As far as artists and creators having there work sold but not getting royalties. Thats their problem! They will go back to the marketplace and purchase security systems to help themselves. In the end thats what survival is, helping yourself.
(My needs come first, you'll just have to suffer untill i've had my fill. Get in my why and I'll have you removed, fired, laid-off, criminalized or worse.)
If you doubt that, Go re-read the IBM article regarding 14000 jobs going overseas.
I just heard an NPR radio report on this hacker. The US Gov't claims he's responsible for deleting a huge number of files. That doesn't really sound like a hacker to me. If you had access into Army, Navy, Airforce and a bunch of other US Gov't agency computers, why would you draw attention to yourself by deleting files? On the other hand I guess the Gov't can now claim all files related to the Kennedy Assasination are missing. -- "They said it was a weather Balloon" -Soul Coughing
Did anyone notice that the Star Trek Armada 1 and 2 computers games were more exciting, better written and a whole lot more fun than any of the STTNG Movies?
Halo Schmalo! screw that. Last I heard MS owns FASA and all rights to the Mech Warrior Series! Now if you doubt a Mech Warrior movie based on the (books/Games) would sell, Blow the dust off a copy of Mech Warrior 2 and re-live that kick ass opening sequence.
Windows 2k3 Server is one of the best platforms to do media streaming right now. (if you get a really fast intel box). As soon as MPLAYER, VLC, REALPLAYER, DARWIN, get there crappy distributions stable and working properly under LINUX/BSD >Then! Windows server sales should drop big time. People In the Streaming media business do not like being locked into a single platform.
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"He said each student would get a free computer "instead of books, because books will be found and can be read on computers."
I hope they are not intending to do a way with books altogether...
Technology is great but hardly a replacement for books. Books are inexpensive in comparison, portable, random access memory (you can flip to any page), durable (harder to break then computers, sometimes there are printing errors but a book is never gonna give you a kernel panic or blue screen.
The $100.00 laptop sounds like a great tool for the students but hardly a replacement for books. If they try that this project will flop.
I always wondered about that.
If I use ftp to share copy-written materials would proftp be liable?
Or how about apache if my apache webserver/site provided access to copy protected materials.
I mean does Verizon get sued when people use their network for making drug deals?
should they be?
I bid 30,000 quotloos the humans will exceed expectations!
Yep!
At least until Microsoft X is released.
Maybe they will cal it Windows MX, the new BSD based OS
with a custom windows window manager.
Yes I beleive Microsft management will wise up and basically
use there assets to revamp Apples product.
As a matter of fact doesn't Microsoft own a percentage of Apple?
I found this on the Ask Metafilter:
From Apple's 2003 SEC filing:
"In August 1997, the Company and Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) entered into patent cross license and technology agreements. In addition, Microsoft purchased 150,000 shares of Apple Series A nonvoting convertible preferred stock ("preferred stock") for $150 million. These shares were convertible by Microsoft after August 5, 2000, into shares of the Company's common stock at a conversion price of $8.25 per share. During 2000, 74,250 shares of preferred stock were converted to 9 million shares of the Company's common stock. During 2001, the remaining 75,750 preferred shares were converted into 9.2 million shares of the Company's common stock."
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/30833
[The General stands before a large electronic wall display talking to the rebel fighers]
General: "The battle station is heavily shielded and carries a firepower greater than half the fleet. It's defenses are designed around a direct large-scale assault. A small one-man coder should be able to penetrate the outer defense."
Code Leader: [stands up to ask question] "Pardon me for asking, sir, but what good are programmers going to be against that?"
General: "Well, the Empire doesn't consider small one-man coders to be any threat, or they'd have a tighter defense. An analysis of the plans provided by Steven Hilton has demonstrated a weakness in the station."
General: [Tux makes penguin sounds. The computer display starts as the General keeps talking] "The approach will not be easy. You are required to maneuver your packets straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two kilobytes wide. It's a UDP port, right below the TCP port. The shaft leads directly to the RPC. A precise hit will start a chain reaction which should destroy the station."
General: [a murmer of disbelief runs through the room] "Only a precise hit will set up a chain reaction. The shaft is Firewalled, so you'll have to be l33t."
This sums up my feelings...
--
Written By:Russell Nelson
On June 2, 2006 03:15 AM
Wow. That's an interesting decision. So if I post my land against hunters, and hunters trespass anyway, I can't exclude hunters because my land was public because hunters trespassed while claiming that they weren't hunters? They were never authorized. Even if I was unable to identify them on casual examination, THEY knew they were hunters, and THEY knew their use of my land was unauthorized. The law is fully capable of taking one's internal knowledge into account -- that's why manslaughter and murder are different crimes.
Sheesh. Idiots.
--
Great... Thank you very much... More junk in space...
This is what the best and brightest could come up with?
How about getting us back to earths natural satellite,
the moon.
"I'm all for general research, I just wish it had a general direction."
-DML
That sounds more like the system rather than the Laywer isn't it.
That is to say, the involvment of Law Firm is the result of two parties not being able to resolve a conflict on their own.
(Rather than deal with a complaint 1 on 1 to resolve an issue I'll ignore it and see if you'll spend resources on a lawyer)
Plus Law Firms seem to be invloved in mergers, bankruptcy, contracts and aspects of business designed to keep firms out of legal trouble.
If I could earn a percentage of the fees paid to lawyers over the past 20 years..."whew!"
Law firms look like a good place to invest money for the next 10-20 years. The entertainment industry seems to determined to grow that segment of the market.
I use a combination of tools to lock down my registry, find and destroy adware, monitor mail and new files as needed.
If AVG or any of the packages listed have a good real-time scanner great, more power to ya. I don't see real time scanning as the most important feature in desktop security.
- Opening sequence: WINDOWS the MOVIE -
:Voice of distraught windows user::
:Voice of h4x0r::
:MK Voice over::
(In the distance the sound of power supplies and disk drives coming alive)
"...These rented songs can't be burned to CD and go silent if you stop paying the fees..."
"not for long..."
(Insert Mortal Kombat theme music here)
* It has begun!
* The Unofficial Windows Security Challenge of 2006!
* Get the Urge!
BitDefender 8 free edition, lacks real time scanner but has scheduler, auto updates and so on.
It reads like this bill limits the ability of people to communicate with each other about security flaws because someone may abuse the knowledge? So who decides what knowledge is safe and unsafe? My elected official?
As an American I can say my elected officials are the last people I want making decisions about what information is or is not unsafe.
I agree with most of it, especially the MMORPG trend. Recently "City of Heroes" has been my affliction... It's comic book style combat in real time! Thats where I'm betting consoles will hit the wall. Playing a MMORPG on a big screen TV is just a Novelty.
A few words about the "hard core gamers":
Madden Football 2002 had a feature that allowed you to setup an online league. A windows based Madden Football League Server. You could connect over the net to run a draft, trade players and check injury reports. It was buggy and seemed to crash all the time but It was the best feature of a PC game I ever saw. I became a hard core Madden Football fan because of it. I could run a league of my own! With my friends, with strangers, with anyone! Some charged membership fees and played for a cash prizes. The hard core gamer had full control.
EA promptly removed the feature the following year saying it was to difficult to mantain and not enough gamers used the feature. Promptly built a buggy online server of their own and charged for access.
We few Hard Core Gamers were not enough to keep the best feature Madden Football ever created. Game companies are after the mass market. The mass market is all about novelty. Discount bins full of Madden 2006 are the result.
"HARD CORE GAMER FOREVER!"
-DML337ira
"I know this all sounds weird, but this is the way the world works,"
says Boyd.
Warning:: Reading the article may cause brain cells to ignite!
(Brain... Burning...Please... Stop!)
Back in the day, when Red Hat was just talkng about going public, I always wondered why Microsoft never did a port of MS office to the LINUX/UNIX Patform. They did it for MAC and figured they had enough R&D money to be present on every OS of the day. I even thought "MS Linux" was just around the corner. I figured Bill Gates would be everywhere to take advantage of innovation from wherever it would emerge.
Sigh....
Linux Users... Rebel Scum!
--Fan of the Evil Empire
Long overdue and bloody obvious!
"Much of the role of open source in the development of the Internet is well known: The most widely used TCP/IP protocol implementation was developed as part of Berkeley networking; Bind runs the DNS, without which none of the web sites we depend on would be reachable; sendmail is the heart of the Internet email backbone; Apache is the dominant web server; Perl the dominant language for creating dynamic sites; etc."
--Open Source Paradigm Shift
by Tim O'Reilly
June 2004
Alright lads get on with it!!!
Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar, dollar bill y'all
--Method Man
it is normal... everywhere... you think we don't notice what corporations and business do everyday. If you can find and edge an advantage to get what you want when you want it, You do it!
WE all need money... If I know peeps are willing to pay m 10 bucks for a quality batman begins DVD. that cost me 33 censt to burn... and the risk of being caught (Jail time) is minimal. Sounds like a solid investment to me.
Bootlegging is not a crime... It's just another investment opportunity. It's not what you do... It's what you can get away with.
As far as artists and creators having there work sold but not getting royalties. Thats their problem! They will go back to the marketplace and purchase security systems to help themselves. In the end thats what survival is, helping yourself.
(My needs come first, you'll just have to suffer untill i've had my fill. Get in my why and I'll have you removed, fired, laid-off, criminalized or worse.)
If you doubt that, Go re-read the IBM article regarding 14000 jobs going overseas.
I just heard an NPR radio report on this hacker. The US Gov't claims he's responsible for deleting a huge number of files. That doesn't really sound like a hacker to me. If you had access into Army, Navy, Airforce and a bunch of other US Gov't agency computers, why would you draw attention to yourself by deleting files? On the other hand I guess the Gov't can now claim all files related to the Kennedy Assasination are missing.
--
"They said it was a weather Balloon" -Soul Coughing
If I ran one of the largest most profitable firms on the planet. I would probably hire someone to handle my e-mail for me.
Wouldn't you?
--
Did anyone notice that the Star Trek Armada 1 and 2 computers games were more exciting, better written and a whole lot more fun than any of the STTNG Movies?
Halo Schmalo! screw that. Last I heard MS owns FASA and all rights to the Mech Warrior Series! Now if you doubt a Mech Warrior movie based on the (books/Games) would sell, Blow the dust off a copy of Mech Warrior 2 and re-live that kick ass opening sequence.
Why do we keep entrusting important data to firm with an acronym that says "OOPS" on all of its delivery vehicles?
Windows 2k3 Server is one of the best platforms to do media streaming right now. (if you get a really fast intel box). As soon as MPLAYER, VLC, REALPLAYER, DARWIN, get there crappy distributions stable and working properly under LINUX/BSD >Then! Windows server sales should drop big time. People In the Streaming media business do not like being locked into a single platform.